The emerging scientific and policy challenges of nanotech- nology are examined from an environmental perspective. Na- notechnology will bring env- ironmental benefi ts but it is vital that we adopt appro- priate assessment and legis- lative processes to address the unique challenges presented by nanomaterials and their life cycles.

Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine: PreTest Self-
Assessment and Review has been designed to provide physicians
with a comprehensive, relevant, and convenient instrument
for self-evaluation and review within the broad area
of internal medicine.

We called these groups “target communications audiences,” and as a first step in our analysis we sought
to define the characteristics of these groups and their information needs.
To determine who the audiences of policy influencers and of direct advisors to government policy makers
are for the information Apheis produces, we first sought to understand how policy on air pollution is made
and by whom.

This document is one of several white papers that summarize readily available information on control techniques and measures to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from specific industrial sectors.

However, payment systems are not run by a ‘central planner’, but are populated by independent
banks interacting strategically. We therefore look at the equilibrium liquidity/routing choices. A
typical equilibrium here has banks routing part of their payments to RTGS, and part into the
LSM, with the reliance on the LSM increasing with the price of liquidity. Despite the fact that
such an outcome is inefficient (the planner would choose either of the two streams, never both), it
can still be better than the one emerging without the LSM.

At some point, one in five children and adolescents in the UK will suffer
distress or disorganisation of their behaviour sufficient to be considered
‘disordered’ (Office for National Statistics, 2005). Much of this ‘disorder’
will be dealt with informally and resolve or persist at a low level,
accumulating over time to present at a later stage. Some children and
adolescents will be dealt with by various professionals in various capacities
– teachers, school nurses, general practitioners (GPs), social workers – and
never come to the attention of ‘specialists’.

This paper analyzes the role of the financial system for economic growth and stability, and addresses a number of core policy issues for financial sector reforms in emerging economies. The role of finance is studied in the context of a circuit model with interacting rational, forward- looking, and heterogeneous agents. Finance is shown to essentially complement the price system in coordinating decentralized intertemporal resource allocation choices from agents operating under limited information and incomplete trust.

Ecotoxicological models have been applied increasingly to perform chemical risk assessments since the first models of this kind emerged about 25 years ago. The first ecotoxicological models were applied to very specific cases — for instance, cadmium contamination of Lake Erie or mercury contamination of Mex Bay, Alexandria. The models were inspired by the experience gained in ecological modeling and therefore contained good descriptions of ecological processes. Slightly later, the so-called fate models emerged, which were first developed by McKay and others.

Emergencies in medicine are difficult on two fronts: they may challenge both the
health of the patient and the skills of the doctor in charge. If the latter, the former
may deteriorate rapidly. Thus, the definition of an emergency indeed depends on
who is facing it. As we mature along our clinical pathways of education, training, and
experience, the risk of going through a personal professional emergency is continuously
reduced. Nevertheless, throughout our medical career, accurate self-assessment
and subsequent control of our actions remain our most important qualities.

Urban Ecology is the study of ecosystems that include humans living in cities and urbanizing landscapes.
It is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that aims to understand how human and ecological
processes can coexist in human-dominated systems and help societies with their efforts to become
more sustainable. It has deep roots in many disciplines including sociology, geography, urban planning,
landscape architecture, engineering, economics, anthropology, climatology, public health, and
ecology.

This study analyzes and provides empirical tests of early warning indicators
of banking and currency crises in emerging economies. The aim is
to identify key empirical regularities in the run-up to banking and currency
crises that would enable officials and private market participants
to recognize vulnerability to financial crises at an earlier stage. This, in
turn, should make it easier to motivate the corrective policy actions that
would prevent such crises from actually taking place.

The advantages and limitations of conventional structural MRI for the diagnosis and
monitoring of MS are discussed by Andreadou (Chapter 15). There is often a disparity
between the level of structural abnormality seen on MRI and level of cognitive
difficulties expressed by the patient with MS. Clinical interview and
neuropsychological assessment are vitally impairment, not only from an initial
diagnostic perspective but also in terms of longer term planning and care.

The second chapter of the book demonstrates both the power of fluid dynamic
analysis and its inherent complexity, even when the flow geometry is relatively
simple. The problem under consideration is important to design of engines and
becomes increasingly complicated when the incompressibility, heat generation, and
mass flux are included.

The idea to apply an assessment of ecosystem health to environmental
management emerged in the late 1980s. The parallels with the assessment of
human health are very obvious. We go to the doctor to get a diagnosis (to
determine what is wrong) and hopefully initiate a cure to bring us back to
normal. The doctor will take various measurements and make examinations
(pulse, blood pressure, sugar in the urine etc.) before making a diagnosis and
suggesting a cure.

Recent studies indicate that e-government initiatives have not held their promise of improving government services. The majority of efforts to benchmark e-government have had central government as the unit of analysis. This study employs the MeGAP-3 (The Municipal E-Government Assessmen Project) assessment tool to assess the status of municipal e-government in the Agder region in southern Norway, an area with high Internet penetration and mature information and communication technology (ICT) use....

The chapter
provides insight into the early assessment process and the application of precaution,
an often poorly described management action rarely captured in peer review
literature. The situation surrounding this potential new threat to blood safety was
largely resolved in mid-2011 when it was determined that the virus was an artifact
from contaminated patient samples and from contamination stemming from a
diagnostic test kit widely used by researchers.

In modern technological society small businesses are expected to have an innovative role in the emerging knowledge economy, especially at an international level (EC, 2005; BERR, 2008). In fact the effective use of technological innovation is considered to be a prerequisite for small business survival (Packham, 2002; Packham et al, 2005). It has long been recognised that the small business sector is important for economic growth and it has been noted that there is a need for an international focus on small businesses having access to international markets (OECD, 2005).

This book has emerged from our experience in the education of allied health
professionals (AHPs), particularly student occupational therapists. As tutors we
were aware that students, especially as they neared qualification, struggled to
find a suitable textbook examining the key areas that contextualised their study
of profession-specific skills.